Let's talk hair loss and treatments

My hair has been thinning for several years. I started taking a daily biotin supplement about a year ago. It took at least six months to notice improvement, but I feel like it doesn't look as thin on top as it used to. A shorter hair style with lots of layers around the crown also helps disguise the problem.

Hugs. How is your thyroid? Low thyroid is often a trigger of hair issues. My friend has had serious hair loss and weightloss without intent, and a high calorie, no wheat diet supervised by her doctor has made a big difference.

I'm sorry.    My daughter has a thinning scalp due to her bipolar meds.  She's been trying biotin for about a year with little results.  I think it leads to more depression and worry about it which isn't healthy.  (Her thyroid levels are fine--we just had her bloodwork done).  Hope there are some good hints here.

I can completely understand wanting to "fix" it so that it looks better, but as my stylist very correctly told me - you can throw a lot of money at hiding the issue or you can throw a lot of money at determining the cause and resolving it. Of course in some instances, it's something that's very difficult, if not impossible to resolve, but it sounds like you know that you have a thyroid issue, so I would definitely aggressively pursue that. A really good stylist should be able to work with your thinning areas to come up with a hairstyle that can hide them.

I know what's causing mine and it should resolve in a few months, so I'm hanging in there. One of my biggest complaints is that I have hair all over all.the.time. It covers me, it covers the floor, it's all over the clean laundry when it comes out of the dryer. And let me just warn you, right now, you do not want to eat anything I make because there's a good likelihood that there's hair in it. I try, truly I do. I pull it back. I even wear a knitted hat sometimes, but there's just freaking hair everywhere. Add to that the fact that it's white/silver and it's ridiculous.

Menopause accelerated the hair loss for me. Sucks, man.

I have a friend who has had thinning hair, and unsuccessfully tried to figure out the cause.
She shaved her read, and got a few wigs, a plain one, and one that is ombre from black hair to an icy blue.

She LOVES it, and she has the head shape for it too...

Might be kind of drastic, but an option nonetheless.

    You are very welcome. And if your doctor won't listen to you move on to another doctor. I went through several doctors before I finally found one that would listen to me and work with me. One female endocrinologist said to me when I told her one of my symptoms (that my hands were always freezing) "Well, are they turning blue? No? Then you are fine". Needless to say I never went back to her again! 

Properly diagnosing hypothyroid is a combination of test results and listening to the patients symptoms. That's what I mean by doctor and patient working together. My current doctor (he's the one I've been seeing for the past several years) is an Integrative Medicine doctor. He listens to his patients and believes patients and doctors should work together. 

For a while my hair was thinning and my scalp was itchy. I found that using a coal tar shampoo stopped the itch and my hair grew back. My sister reminded me that our mother had psoriasis of the scalp, so I guess it is genetic.

I was having some hair loss last year. I started using collagen powder and that has helped quite a bit with my hair and nails.

No you don't have to use it continuously, just in the beginning and then occasionally. The psoriasis tends to get worse right after coloring, unfortunately, so I only get foil highlights rather than a colorant that will sit right on my scalp.

There is a cortisone product called Scalpicin that helps with itching and can calm the psoriasis a bit.